Quotes About Despair

After years of watching the comic face of nihilism, your children will come to respect nothing, love nothing, believe in nothing, and long for nothing.

in the night, seeing that all hope was gone, every single man committed suicide.

Several times he prepared for suicide, asking his sword bearer to be his executioner.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

I am the self-consumer of my woes;

But there have been times when I have been very much in the shadows, when I have looked into the valley of death and wished – and wished I could enter.

I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope.

that moment, Fraser was utterly aware of the smallness of the room, the hopelessness of a life broken.

That was when I would be at my lowest, falling asleep with the knowledge that the moment I opened my eyes the whole thing would start all over again.

As far as he could see, the communist system was defeating itself without his help. How else to explain the forlorn hopelessness of its capital?

garden where they used to live. She can't trust anyone. Raymond Clunes has just ripped her off. Her beloved son has pissed off and gone to America. She's got so few friends that after she was killed it took two whole days for anyone to notice she was dead and even then it was only the cleaner. It struck me from the start that she must have been pretty bloody miserable. And that's why she was thinking of doing herself in …

I do not know what has brought you here or how you have been driven to an action as extreme as the one you are now contemplating,' he said. 'You must be very unhappy. Of that I am sure. Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work? That is the way of things, Miss Mitchell, and I am the living proof of it.

was finished the moment I came to this country,' he said quietly. 'I was twelve years old and I didn't want to be here. Nobody wanted me to be here. I was trash – Romanian trash – and the first chance they got, they threw me in this place and forgot about me. You think anyone will read this letter? You think anyone will care? No! I could die in here.

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.

Purgatory is hell, with hope.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Por qué me hiciste conocer el paraíso si ahora insistes en sumergirme en el peor de los infiernos?

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en pises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad

This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.

No, any great grief, though the grief itself may have gone, leaves in its place a train of horrors, of misery, and despair.

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.

I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?